Dr Rush

True but my point here was more the forum has been steadily dropping in participation for ages, I've been trying to get sheepy build out the bulletin module to be able to properly support doing this correctly for ages. Aka at some point this will be done 100% in game but for now I'm going to do as much stuff where the majority of the player base actually goes as I can.

Due to the shear number of submissions the war vote is returning to the forum for the voting phase at least until submissions are vastly trimmed down. Pick however many you think deserve to make it to a proper vote. The threshold to survive to the next round is 15 votes. Voting closes Tuesday Thursday.

Pretty much. I didn't even realize upvotes where a thing on the bulletins until I started pulling the names about an hour ago. I'm basically ignoring them entirely. Although I am being a little choosier in what even survives to the poll because there are upwards of 250 name suggestions. Why? Last time around all I heard was that forums where dead and the vote from a random news server was more valid cause it had more participation. The forum is a very small subset of the game's population, part of my job as a moderator is encourage community engagement not blindly follow tradition when it is clearly not working. There is very nearly more nominations on that bulletin than there where votes on the last war name vote here on the forum. Which is kinda absurd when you think about it.

I'm aware there are 26 pages, your not expected to read them. That suffering is for me alone when i gather the suggestions for a poll.

To be more available to all players the naming process has moved to be done through in-game bulletins. Also the nominations will only be open for a week so don't wait to submit. https://politicsandwar.com/bulletin/id=6574/global-war-name-nominations

UI should never be randomized, the proposed solution makes the game objectively worse for everyone to benefit a small portion of the player base. That being said, I can certainly see the issue. A better fix though would be applying outlier exclusion to the math behind the scenes. Such as tossing out <c5s and inactives

They have already been banned.

While I'm sure you all already have picked your pet names. Still gotta run through the motions. Make your suggestions for the official war name.

The nation your linking banned for multies? Sure thats the right one?

Just to be clear. Request validation is the ad service's problem, so dealing with this is their problem not alex's and he has more important places to devote his time. If you get blacklisted by them or whatever that is equally not alex's problem.

And yet it happens. People reflexively buy the top offer on the list, if they are not paying attention and sort it backwords this happens. I actually talked to alex about this being a thing months ago and that something should probably change to prevent it. Because my initial reaction to seeing these kinds of trades was also 'multies!' Until I dug into deeper and realized what was going.

There is an entire sub community in the trade world that focuses on trying to scam people not paying attention on the trade market. I've seen several trade histories like this. And you are right at least with user level tools its hard to separate multies from noobs being scammed. But scamming is whats happening here if you look at the trade screen.

IA in most of the game is terrible. Also, we are trying to protect the super tiny new nations that are not getting any aid at all.

Better idea, if your going to have gacha mechanics at least add the waifus to go with them.

The hippo is in there for some reason

I already knew what was going to win. That doesn't change needing to go through the formalities. If anything this process legitimizes your vote result by validating it in traditional manner. Yes. Also that is a valid consideration given the communities tendency to drag wars out for eons now a days. That being said naming a war 5 mins after starts isn't viable either. There needs to be at least a few days for people to try and participate in all stages. I literally do not care what the war is named beyond really basic moderation concerns like it not being named '!@#$ Rose'. You jest but that is more or less what I'm hoping to do in some manner next war. Just need to bully Alex into setting up the needed stuff. E.G. Polls for the ingame bulletins and a way to put the news out.

Something something formalities. I'm pretty sure we all know what is going to win. Still gotta do the vote. Disclaimer: There is a non zero chance that if 'Guns and Roses' wins that we'll get hit with a DMCA. If that happens we'll have to redo this whole thing.

I'm well aware of the meta. Being the meta does not mean it should be the only viable option. And just because something is already bad does not mean it is okay to make the hole worse.

Force no, greatly hamper, yes.

Thats not at all how that works

If raws production needs to be increased it should be done directly. As it is the raw market is the protected niche where new players can be equally efficent as old ones; And therefore not be priced out of the market. That protected niche needs to stay as a means for new players to grow without depending on raiding.

~48 hours before nominations close

This has been done already, please get new material.

Tbh, this gives a bit of an advantage to whales who have spare slots already. As they can now make power for their alliances lower tier etc.

So you want a thing, but are not sure what it even is?